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"We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage."
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"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."
"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."
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